Cartersville News

A tip led to the arrest of a Marietta man who allegedly grew 39 marijuana plants near a park in the Bartow County city of White, just outside Cartersville.

After yet another weekend filled with flood warnings and event cancellations throughout the metro area, Cartersville is in for some sunny skies early this week and this Memorial Day weekend, though rain will be likely on Wednesday.

After honoring its 2014 Teachers of the Year at Monday's board meeting, Cartersville Schools named its system Teacher of the Year, Paige Robbins, Wednesday at a luncheon at Stonewall Manor , which was sponsored by Renasant Bank .

Editor's Note: The video clip above contains explicit language. Bartow County Sheriff's Office provided this recording of the call Marty Corbitt made to 911 on Wednesday as his neighbor, Phillip Rodger Bennett, 58, allegedly set Corbitt's 18 Boatner Avenue home on fire.

A shoplifting suspect who abandoned a 5-year-old boy getting away from loss prevention officers looked like a woman, but may have, in fact, been a man.

Updated 5 p.m. Bennett was released from the hospital and taken to the Bartow County jail by 4 p.m., according to sheriff's office Sgt.

The people listed on the Bartow County jail's intake report were arrested and booked into the jail but are not convicted, therefore are presumed innocent until the court system settles their cases.

The Rome Exchange Club donated a new rocking chair to the Neo-Natal Intensive Care unit at Floyd Medical Center on Friday.

The search for a man accused of setting his neighbor's house on fire with a 3-year-old child inside came to an end Thursday.

Georgia Power community representative Tequila Smith talks with Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, Rep.

Police are searching for the man they say burned down a neighbor's house Wednesday morning because, as the neighbor tells 11Alive News, the man was angry that the neighbor had not mowed his lawn -- the grass was too tall.

Carry The Load - a national relay to raise awareness of Memorial Day and its meaning - will pass through Northwest Georgia today and Thursday.

Police cited an "ongoing feud" between neighbors as the motive for an arson at 18 Boatner Avenue in Cartersville this afternoon.

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. The Georgia Department of Transportation will scale back its construction projects across Northwest Georgia suspending construction-related lane closures on all interstate and major state system highways to ease Memorial Day weekend traffic congestion.

The people listed on the Bartow County jail's intake report were arrested and booked into the jail but are not convicted, therefore are presumed innocent until the court system settles their cases.

Four area officials graduated earlier this month from the 2013 Georgia Academy for Economic Development.

Cartersville's Booth Western Art Museum is opening its annual Artists' Guild Exhibition today in the Borderlands Gallery.

A couple of police reports chronicling alleged criminal incidents in Cartersville and Bartow County in the last day or so caught our eyes at Cartersville Patch .

Domino's Pizza stores throughout the metro area are looking for a few good men and women.

Updated 3 p.m. The second suspect charged with killing Cartersville resident and Canton native Randall "R.J." Statler during the commission of a robbery has no criminal history, CPD Capt.